Archives for
May 2013

As has been its custom, Facebook supplied some charts showing various stats related to the company's first-quarter performance on Wednesday, prior to its call with analysts. The stats show a steady increase in mobile users and users overall but also ...

Mark Zuckerberg is facing the wrath of some liberals angry his political group indirectly bankrolled ads praising two senators for their support of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Liberal frustration over the ads seem amplified by a feeling of betrayal...

Taco Bell is testing the waters for Snapchat, a hugely popular app with teens, but also a controversial one that most brands have steered clear of. The fast feeder joined the platform Tuesday night and announced it with the following tweet: We're on ...

Bang With Friends, the service for lusty Facebook users, is going mobile. It raised $1 million this week to help you get more friends with benefits. The influx of cash will be focused on helping you see, from the comfort of your phone, just which fri...

Approximately 70% of brand engagement on Pinterest is generated by users, according to a recent study by Digitas and Curalate. However, companies in the fashion retail and automotive industries aren't capitalizing on Pinterest's engagement. According...

Is your sexting so entertaining, so artful and inspiring that it should be in a museum? If you think so, now's the time to prove it. In an upcoming art installation, controversial artist Karen Finley asks museum patrons to sext her, and then she will...

Work and travel may not seem like they go hand-in-hand, but being 40,000 feet up among the clouds might just be the best time to scratch some items off your to-do list before you try to catch some shut eye. With airport waiting and even some flights ...

You might still have a vintage Polaroid camera lying around the house that you're glad you held on to for its modern-day cool factor. But is your Polaroid cool enough to be made out of LEGO bricks? LEGO artist Chris McVeigh created a LEGO brick repro...

A near-Earth asteroid that will be visited by a NASA spacecraft in 2018 now has a more approachable name — "Bennu" — thanks to a North Carolina third-grader. Nine-year-old Michael Puzio's suggestion beat out more than 8,000 other entries in an intern...

In the latest TV commercial campaign from UNICEF Sweden, the organization admits something few seem to remember in the age of social media milestones: Facebook Likes don't save lives. In the most viral clip, which has received more than 40,000 views ...

Social media has disrupted quite a few fields, becoming an integral part of many of them, such as journalism or marketing. And professionals in these fields have had to adapt, or, perhaps, perish. But everybody has a different way of using social med...

Name: Zumper One-Liner Pitch: Zumper is a high-quality apartment listings site without the spam. Why It's Taking Off: With the launch of mobile app Zumper Pro, landlords can easily manage their listings inside Zumper and on other sites. It's a mobile...

What happens when you combine a hit television drama and your favorite childhood building blocks into a video game? LEGO Breaking Bad: The Video Game. Animator Brian Anderson merged two beloved forms of entertainment, and displayed the results in an ...

For those that love the Keurig coffeemaker with those nifty little flavor cups, there is now a similar drink machine for soda. Creator Michael Breault is raising funds on Kickstarter to further develop the SPRiZZi Drink Machine, which can dispense ho...

Countering the stereotype of the web-surfing couch potato, a new study reveals that logging online may actually help people maintain their weight loss. Researchers from the University of Kansas Medical Center compared results from 20 overweight and o...

"Kris Kross" became a worldwide trending term on Twitter after news of member Chris Kelly's death broke online Wednesday night. Fans took to Twitter to mourn the loss of Kelly -- also known as "Mac Daddy" -- one half of the rap duo best known for its...

Several of President Barack Obama's former top technology and political campaign staffers are launching a consulting firm to bring the data and analytics know-how of the Obama campaign to a variety of companies, advocacy campaigns and other clients. ...

Although developing apps for Google Glass isn't currently a very lucrative endeavor -- ads aren't allowed, and the device costs $1,500 -- developers are creating new ways to use the wearable device every day. Case in point: an app that lets Google Gl...

Warm weather means shedding your layers, which ignites the great debate on tanning. On one hand, you're probably feeling pretty pasty from hibernating all winter. Studies have shown how dangerous tanning can be, and sunless tanners can be expensive a...

Hulu's premium video service, Hulu Plus, has doubled its user base in the past 12 months, surpassing 4 million paying subscribers since launching in 2010. Those subscribers, who pay $7.99 each month for Hulu Plus, and non-paying Hulu users will see 1...

Mashable's Events Board is a great place to find the leading conferences in your industry -- whether that's advertising, technology, media or public relations. This week, we're highlighting five events that we think can help move your career forward....

Chances are, after travelling around the world, you'll want to bring back some evidence of your latest trip -- and we're not just referring to postcards and tsotchkes. We're talking photos because, let's face it: Pic or it didn't happen. Much like ho...

Avast, a popular antivirus software company, has acquired Secure.me, a startup that focuses on making Facebook -- and the apps that connect to it -- safer for users. The financial terms of the acquisition weren't disclosed. "This new set up will allo...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Facebook reported its quarterly earnings Wednesd...

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